Inserting some chars in a column

Amit Manas Dubey · New User Joined: 15 Dec 2006 Posts: 22 Location: Mumbai

I have a Sequential file with LRECL 87. I have multiple records in the file with length 85 and the last two chars are spaces.

I want to insert some chars in Column 14 and 15 and shift the rest of the record to the right.

Any ideas how I can achieve that ?

Are there any Line commands that can be used ?

Best regards,
Amit.

murmohk1 · Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 4:41 pm

Amit,

Amit Manas Dubey · New User Joined: 15 Dec 2006 Posts: 22 Location: Mumbai

Hi

Yes the records have length 87, but the last 2 chars are spaces. So I can insert 2 chars in Column 14, 15 and shift the rest of the record to the right.

As an example say, i have a file with LRECL 10. And 1 sample record is

'ABCD1223 '

Now I inset 2 chars in column 3/4, and change the record to

'AB#@CD1223'

I want to achieve this for all the records in the file.

Regards,
Amit.

murmohk1 · Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 5:14 pm

Amit,

If are allowed to use DFSORT in your shop, use the following -

mmwife · Super Moderator Joined: 30 May 2003 Posts: 1592

If you want to use ISPF, try this:

On cmd line: bnd 14 87
In the margin for first rec: ))2
In the margin for last rec: ))
On cmd line: bnd

Then put what you want into 14-15.